The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-10-27
lives even when fame comes and flls them
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heads 40 they swoop sayly across tho coun.

lives even " hen fame comes and fills then
full Of themHelyea and swells their schin,
headu 40 they swoop gayly across tho coun
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| do not 60 90 far as some OF the friend
1 OF Shakespeare and say that, while h,
: was lovely character aud a great actor
Bacon ,was q ham. = DO not gay that, io
Bacon has bis good points. ~ '3'G
- Inc thing that has done more 10 injur,
Shakespeare In the eyes Of tho historian
than aupht else, perhaps, was his seemin,
neglect o. bis wife. But we should con
slider both Bides Of the question before We
pass Judgment. The iHathaways were
queer people, and Anna wac unusually
60. Hor father enuhbsd her In his will
jnas as her husband did, which ehows thai
Mira. Shakespeare was not highly ee.
teemed even by her parents Tho brio
notice which Ammo received In these two
Wills means q good deal, for there Is moth,
ing quite so thoroughly unanswerable as
q probate hnub. 17y1ji "a EiE3s '5@G,jS7
Shakespeare In hla own will gave to his
wife bis gecond.best bed, and that wss all,
When we remember that II was bed that
eagged In the middle, and that II operGted
BY means Of BEDFORD which had to be
frightened and tuned up twice a week, and
thatthe augerholes In the bsdatead seemed
ever to mnte!y appeal for more powder
from PorBla's. great powder-magazine we
will be forced to admit that William did
not pssslopately love his wife. i5.5a
81 know that Shakespeare haa been
severely criticised by the press for leaving
hiu family ct 6trattord while be himself
lived In London, only visiting home &C.
casionally, but am convinced that he
found they could live cheaper In that way.
Help In the hopee was very high a! that
time IN London,and the intelligence Officer
were doing a very large business without
giving worry much intelligence. Friends
Of his told him that It was not only i'm
possible to got enough help in the homes
OF London, but that there were hardly
enough servants to prevent q panic in the
employment bureaus. Several offices we're
In Tact compelled to shut down for q half.
day. OF time, one using tho limited stock
In the forenoon and the other in the after.
noon. M. a,FNNN y,GFt
Shakespeare was perfect gentleman,
having been made 80 by the Hsrald's Col.
lege, which invested his fsther with coat
armor. This coat armor made gentle.
man of tho elder Shakespeare, and as
Williams mother was already gentle.
man under the code, William became one
also both on his fathers and on his moth
oss Side. OF course, all this is mere de-
tall and Ia dull aud unintsreating, but l re-
for to 1t to show that those who have read
things In Shakespeare's works that they
did not like, and who, therefore, eay thst
he waa no gentleman, do tho great bard
an inius,ics. }f7T4 - III
Think I like Shakespeare's expurgated
poems best, Grd ! often wish that he had
conllned himself entirely 10 that kind. II
l had q aon who seemed to lean towards
poesy and felt Ike twanging his Tyre now
and then, would advise him to write ex-
pnrReted poema exclusively. =. IS
LIDO not say that Shakespeare was the
author Of his own works, and 1t would not
look we'll in mo to set up my opinion in
oppoaision to that Of scholars, experts and
savants who have had more advantages
than I have, for l wonld never take ad-
vantage OF any ono but l say that zone.
bow tho impression nss crept into the
papers that no was q prettygood little play
writer, and am glad that Mr.. Chiids has
bad a testimonial mado and sent over to
England that will show On appreciation, al
least, Of his ability to keep before the
people. Isl 2. g.I. : nv 5I:s.ss'75
1t will bs'noticed by the alert and keen
scented iittcrateur thst have carefully
avoided treadins on the tail Of MI. Donnel.
ly'e cipher. Being rather poor raathe.
maticisn anyway, will rot Introduce the
cipher at till Tine, but I viii saw thai
although tho whole thing happened about
5U0 years ego, and has now nearly passed
out OF my mind, to the best OF my recoI.
lection Shakespeare, though he wss the son
Of buckwhcater, and though he married
hi5 wife with poetic licenae, and though
no lett his family nt Styaticrd rather than
take them TO live In London fiat, wrots
the most Of his plays with the assistance
OF al expr2ator who was Out OF The city
most all CT tho time. n 49,
l cSnnot show Shakeepsase's ready wit
better at this time than by falling Of bis
fret appearance oa'the stage 90 reman-
her it. Hc came quietly before the foot
lights with roll OF carpet under one arm
and tacE-hammer under tho other, In
those days 1t was customary TO nail down
stage carpets: and while doing So "Gnake. y
sB We called him than, knocked the nail
of hls left thumb, wheIeupon be received
81 ovation from tho audience. sono
men would have been rast,ed and would
have "callsd Ep,s as We cay, but Shaker.
peare, wan aiSHys ready to please his
irienda or rsspend to an encore, 60, put
ting hia right thumb up against large
painted rock in mountain ecene, he
obliged them by knocking of the other
thumb.nail. ss.s-'s. u .2l5957 y5zI'
Shakespeare wrote the poem called
i%Fan."H.- md Adcnis" during the absence
Of his expUrsssor and sent 1t TO tho editor
Of the st:atiord appeal, who deadhoaded
tho paper TO him for q year and told him
that he wished he would writo UP any
other go2eip that might como to his knowi-
edge In that part Of tho country, ee.
pecially II 1t promiaed to be spicy. III y "A
Shakespeare was one OF the few Emo.
liohmen who never visited tbip country
for two weeku for tho purposa OF writing
an eisht.pnuud book on his impressions
OF America. BILL NYE.
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